Molar pregnancies are so rare that many doctors go their entire careers without treating a single case. A woman who receives this diagnosis is set upon a roller coaster of shock, grief, and fear. In... More > most cases she not only has miscarried or must end a pregnancy and must mourn the loss of a baby, but now she also faces an entirely unexpected fear: cancer. After her own molar pregnancy in 2001, Jennifer Wood created MyMolarPregnancy.com as a resource and support group for women with molar pregnancies and choriocarcinoma. Since then, countless women have found help and shared their own stories to help others. This book contains nearly three dozen such stories as well as information about the condition and additional resources. It is the first collection to focus entirely on the experience—the grief, the confusion, the fear, and the process of recovery—from the patients' perspectives and lets other women with this condition know that they are not alone.< Less

Molar pregnancies are so rare that many doctors go their entire careers without treating a single case. A woman who receives this diagnosis is set upon a roller coaster of shock, grief, and fear. In... More > most cases she not only has miscarried or must end a pregnancy and must mourn the loss of a baby, but now she also faces an entirely unexpected fear: cancer. After her own molar pregnancy in 2001, Jennifer Wood created MyMolarPregnancy.com as a resource and support group for women with molar pregnancies and choriocarcinoma. Since then, countless women have found help and shared their own stories to help others. This book contains nearly three dozen such stories as well as information about the condition and additional resources. It is the first collection to focus entirely on the experience—the grief, the confusion, the fear, and the process of recovery—from the patients' perspectives and lets other women with this condition know that they are not alone.< Less

A second collection of women's personal experiences dealing with gestational trophoblastic disease, more commonly known as molar pregnancy, a rare form of miscarriage. This follow-up volume includes... More > a foreword by Dr. Donald P. Goldstein, one of the most well-known specialists in the study of trophoblastic diseases. Like its predecessor, My Molar Pregnancy, the More My Molar Pregnancy stories vary in the types and severities of each woman's experience, making it likely that any reader with a molar pregnancy will find someone with whom they can relate. Each story begins with diagnosis and retells the entire molar experience to its conclusion and in many cases onward to future pregnancy. It is a book designed to let any woman with this condition—or its related and more severe sister, choriocarcinoma—know: You are not alone.< Less

A second collection of women's personal experiences dealing with gestational trophoblastic disease, more commonly known as molar pregnancy, a rare form of miscarriage. This follow-up volume includes... More > a foreword by Dr. Donald P. Goldstein, one of the most well-known specialists in the study of trophoblastic diseases. Like its predecessor, My Molar Pregnancy, the More My Molar Pregnancy stories vary in the types and severities of each woman's experience, making it likely that any reader with a molar pregnancy will find someone with whom they can relate. Each story begins with diagnosis and retells the entire molar experience to its conclusion and in many cases onward to future pregnancy. It is a book designed to let any woman with this condition—or its related and more severe sister, choriocarcinoma—know: You are not alone.< Less

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